{"id":634058,"date":"2026-03-20T19:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/634058\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:29:19","slug":"padres-now-the-10th-most-valuable-franchise-in-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/634058\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres now the 10th-most valuable franchise in MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Padres sold for $600 million in 2012, after cable money was accounted for. Fourteen years later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/justinteitelbaum\/2026\/03\/20\/baseballs-most-valuable-teams-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes is valuing the franchise at $3.1 billion<\/a> as the Seidler family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/03\/13\/four-remaining-prospective-buyers-visit-padres-spring-training-complex\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closes in on a record sale price<\/a>, perhaps as soon as next month.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, Forbes valued the Padres at $2 billion, which ranked 17th out of the 30 Major League Baseball teams.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s value ranks 10th in baseball and is an MLB-best 59% increase over last year\u2019s valuation.<\/p>\n<p>The sale of the team, according to Forbes, could also reach $3.5 billion with the \u201cinclusion of their events business, which generates tens of millions in annual revenue apart from the team itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That would easily trump the record $2.4 billion that Steve Cohen paid to buy the Mets in 2020. The Mets are currently valued at $3.5 billion, sixth most in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees lead all teams with a valuation of $8.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s other MLB teams rank second (Dodgers, $7.8 billion), fifth (Giants, $4.05 billion), 11th (Angels, $2.8 billion) and 18th (Athletics, $2 billion).<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the NL West valuations have the Diamondbacks ranked 19th ($1.96 billion) and the Rockies ranked 25th ($1.68 billion).<\/p>\n<p>You can read Forbes\u2019 analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/justinteitelbaum\/2026\/03\/20\/baseballs-most-valuable-teams-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres sold for $600 million in 2012, after cable money was accounted for. Fourteen years later, Forbes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,853,4,43,137,18,4339,4338,185,3546],"class_list":{"0":"post-634058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-padres","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-sandiegopadres","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-top-stories-sdut"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116263162798015735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}